Saturday, March 29, 2014

I wouldn't have believed that liberal talk show host Bill Maher could actually have a segment that is worth circulating, but here it is the video as evidence. I do not know who the two liberal panelists are, but it really doesn't matter: you could take the heads off any liberals and switch them around and it wouldn't matter because they are all parrots for the Obama agenda.

Kudos to Bill Maher for actually doing a neutral piece, and for exposing the hypocrisy of his own kind.

Being an informed Catholic voter means knowing what our rights are, knowing the Constitution, and knowing how to stand up for both of them. Voters in Texas, do America a favor and re-elect Ted Cruz. If Cruz is nominated for President, he will make a worthy and formidable candidate. Watch these excerpts from his CPAC speech earlier this month.

At the end of February I wrote about three epic Fails using social media that have brought unwanted negative attention to attention-seekers. Now, at the end of March, I can add two more Fails to the list. And there will no doubt be more to follow since so many morons use social media and do not think before they post or speak.

The first Fail is the widely publicized sad (sniffle) story of Gwyneth Paltrow and her break up "conscious uncoupling" from husband-of-ten-years Chris Martin. The "conscious uncoupling" is a fail, but not the capital-f "Fail." Rather, it was Paltrow's comments this past week that result in the "Fail" being ascribed. Paltrow basically said that her life as an actress is more difficult than the life of a mother working a nine-to-five job. Paltrow made the comments during an interview with an entertainment network, but it was social media that labeled her comment as disrespectful of the average working mother and spread it like wildfire through cyberspace. So Gwyneth gets the "Fail" to accompany her "fail."

Fail number two of the week goes to another celebrity personality who makes a living mocking and taunting those who disagree with his distorted view of the world. His Fail this week is far more disgusting than Paltrow's because not only does he cast the blame for his Fail on his employees, but he also has liberal media coming to his defense, speaking for him to deflect blame and protect him from the social media outcry of "Colbert is a racist."

Briefly, Colbert has a show where he pretends to be a conservative pundit, and he says outlandish things and interviews guests in a distorted mocking way as if he was a conservative. That's all well and good. Free speech and all. But if you are going to hide behind the First Amendment banner, you should have the guts to accept responsibility for your actions and your speech.

On one of his shows this week Colbert was reporting on Washington Redskin's owner, Dan Snyder, and his refusal to change the team name to something other than Redskin. (This has been a three decade battle and Snyder remains unbending.) Rather than accepting that Dan Snyder also has First Amendment rights, Colbert and other liberals continue to harass and mock and demean the choice of the owner to retain the team name. Dan Snyder had announced that has established a foundation to aid Native Americans, and Colbert was intending to mock the show of good will from the well-intentioned team owner.

The controversy causing the epic Fail came after the show ended. Here is how the liberal rag WaPo described the events:

During the last day (Thursday-Friday), Stephen Colbert, who by this point counts as a
comedic warhorse for liberalism, has been on blast for a Tweet from the
account for his show. The missive has since been taken down, but while
it was live, it read: “I
am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the
Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or
Whatever.” Shocking, to be sure, but the target seemed to be fairly
clear (especially when viewed in context): Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder had just announced, with astonishing audacity, his jaw-droppingly named Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation,
an obvious attempt to blunt criticism of his team’s name. But writer
and activist Suey Park decided that bringing Asians and Asian-Americans
in on the satire was a misstep, calling on Comedy Central to
“#CancelColbert.”

Deservedly, Colbert was hit from his own left by slams for the Asian community, who found his tweet insulting and racist, and called for his show to be cancelled. In response, yellow-bellied Colbert responded by saying it was not HE who had tweeted the insult, but someone from his staff. He pointed to his PERSONAL Twitter account and said, "See, it wasn't ME who said it." But as is always the case when an underling tweets or speaks in your name, it stands to reason that the underling thought the principal would approve. That's because had there not been an uproar, Colbert would certainly have claimed credit for the unfunny remark.

Colbert's epic Fail is that he conveys to his staff that he approves of and enjoys racist remarks, but when his feet are held to the fire, he hypocritically DENIES any responsibility. Stephen, your gonads are shrinking. Own your Fail!

In the end, liberals all alike. Same face, same story, same elitism. They shouldn't even try to hide it.

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Get Andrew Breitbart's book Hollywood Interrupted and read the expose on how Hollywood succumbed to the will of liberal fascists.

The new movie God Is Not Dead will never get the votes from the movie academy to win an Oscar or any other prestigious award, but it gets my vote for the movie I most want to see. This trailer is so captivating that I a pumped to pay to see the first movie since I saw Les Miserables last year. Please, go see this movie. Kevin Sorbo, who plays the professor, was blacklisted from Hollywood because of his Christian beliefs. You may recognize Sorbo from various TV and movie roles in past decades, particularly his Hercules role.

Google images of Kevin Sorbo

We need to promote movies like this so that more can be made. It is a rare treasure.

Find a link to search movie theaters in your area, such as this one, and vote with your feet!

Social media has revolutionized the world. The twelve-year-old girl in the video below has used the cyber world to spread a message of life as she argues eloquently and convincingly for the right to life of the unborn child to be given precedence over the so-called rights of the woman who carries the child in her womb. I vote for Lia to be the spokesperson for unborn children everywhere if their mothers are considering abortion.

God bless Lia, and God bless all unborn babies whose mothers do not love them more than herself.

If you have not seen this viral video, you have been hiding under a rock. It is pretty awesome, and is a testament to the life of unborn children. The baby was just born on March 13, 2014, so s/he is only about 2 weeks old.

I often complain about things in life that annoy me or that seemingly get in my way. Then, every so often, I see or hear something that reminds me that God has richly blessed me, and that makes me thankful for His many blessings.

Earlier this week I had an eye appointment with my ophthalmologist for a routine annual checkup. Last year a different doctor (an optometrist) examined my eyes and told me that she thought she saw the early stages of macular degeneration on my retinas. Since my maternal grandmother had macular degeneration for a number of years prior to her death, that concerned my. A followup referral led to a finding that the optometrist was probably just being overly cautious and that what she saw was probably not macular degeneration. That's why this week I was quite relieved when I visited the ophthalmologist again and the doctor confirmed that my eyes are quite healthy for my age. He said that the so-called signs of macular degeneration were no more than ordinary "druins" (a new word for me). As I drove home with dilated eyes into the blinding afternoon sun, I gave thanks to God for my sense of sight and my overall good health.

This morning when I saw the video below, I renewed my thanks to our Heavenly Father for allowing me to be able to hear his creation outside my window right now. I am even grateful to hear the rain that is falling steadily right now, and I'm grateful even more so that the rain is not snow!

[Note: I wish I could delete he commercial at the start, but it's part of the embed, unfortunately.]

My husband has a hearing impairment, so I know from talking to him how frustrating it is to miss out on certain sounds. He can hold a smoke detector in his hand and not hear the shrill, piercing scream when it is set off. We have all learned to live with the closed captioning on TV -- except when basketball games are on. We just turn it up a little louder at those times. That means tonight it will be really loud as we watch the NCAA Sweet Sixteen game between the UK Wildcats and the U of L Cardinals!

Although this B.A.S.E. jump from the NYC Freedom Tower took place last September, the video taken by one jumper's helmet camera was just posted this past Monday. It already has over 2.75 million views in less than 4 days. If you can, enlarge this to fill your screen to get the full effect.

That was awesome! I thought I was not going to be able to watch it, especially when he was still at the top and looked over the side. My stomach actually lurched momentarily. But once he jumped, it was an awesome ride down. The landing was perfect, except I thought he would land in the opposite lane since he could see the oncoming traffic. The jump took place at 3:00 a.m., so there was not much traffic out in that part of the city that never sleeps.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Before reading another sentence of this blog, stop and ask yourself: Can I name one United States Senator? Hopefully the response is, "What? One? I can name at least 50 Senators." And hopefully you can do just that.

So at what age should Americans be able to name one U.S. Senator? Whatever age you name, I suspect it is unanimous that by the time you graduate from high school you should be able to name at least one. Preferably, students should know all their state's Senators and the Representative from their own area of the state. After all, graduates are generally 18 years old by that time, or soon will be. Along with the right to vote comes a responsibility to learn who you are voting for and what issues are at stake. The things that kids learn today, and the means by which they learn it, certainly have changed significantly even in the last 30 years.

Still, going off to college is meant to continue to prepare young people to be good citizens and to exercise some modicum of intelligence when they exercise the sacred right to vote. Although this video below should scare the dickens out of older viewers, it sadly has become the norm on college campuses. MRC TV's Dan Joseph visited the campus of American University in northwest Washington D.C., recently to ask students the $64,000 Question: Can you name one U.S. Senator? The responses are mind-boggling.

Okay, stop laughing and listen up. The mind-boggling thing about this is that these students are attending a university that this academic year costs $20,066 per semester, and next year will cost $20,658 per semester to attend (2014-15). That's tight, you did not read that wrong, and it is not a misprint. It is $20,066 per semester for the 2013-14 academic year. And if you are chosen to attend law school at this elite university next year, it will cost you $24,331 per semester. By the end of three years of law school students will be invested to the tune of over a quarter million dollars easily. And that isn't including undergrad costs.

Now, I'm sure these young people at American U are getting a first class education at their illustrious university. But if I was a parent sending my kid to that university and paying that kind of money, and if I learned that s/he could not name even ONE U.S. Senator while on camera for the world to see, I can tell you where my kid would be spending at least part of the summer: reviewing flashcards and learning the names of all 100 Senators, AND the state that s/he is from.

Oh, and by the way, it's no surprise that the one Senator anyone could name is Rand Paul. This Catholic voter is taking a good long look at the junior Senator from Kentucky. You should, too.

Monday, March 24, 2014

As a Catholic voter, I can tell you it's a good thing that this former fruitcake President is not running for ANYTHING today because this voter would be out there campaigning against him at every turn. In fact I thought he was dead! He looks like he is. He must be 150 years old already.

I was only a teenager when this moron served one term as President, but the effects of his mismanagement and ineptitude are still being felt today. (Don't get me started on the bills he signed into law that required financial institutions to relax their criteria for screening home-ownership applicants. He's the reason the market crashed in 2008 -- because of the bubble created by his relaxation of lending laws, allowing unqualified people to get mortgages they could never hope to pay back.)

Now Carter is out there shooting his mouth off about Catholics, trying to sell his pitiful book. Carter basically opines that because the Pope says that women cannot be priests, women are now being raped, beaten, and enslaved by men all over this country. That's no joke. He actually says as much.

If I seem like I am coming down hard on the 89-year-old (I just Googled him to see if he was born born in the 20th century), then I admit that I am. Serving one-and-done as President does not entitle him or anyone else to start lobbing his distorted religious views on the rest of us, belittling my faith and making accusations that are a fiction of his own convoluted, self-aggrandizing thinking. Sure it's a free country, and even warped old men can speak their minds. But women who disagree with him can also tell him to get out of the limelight and stop trying to speak for us. I don't need a peanut farmer from Georgia to fight my battles. That's because my battle is with liberals like this hate-spewing, bigoted old man.

And here's a warning for old man Carter. You keep running your mouth about the Muslims and how they treat women and you won't have to promote your book. It will sell posthumously, after they come over and behead your peanut brain.

Those of us who were alive during the Kennedy Administration are old enough to remember the 1973 Sci-Fi flick called Soylent Green. It starred Charlton Heston, who played a detective who stumbles upon the origin of a new foodstuff that the government has developed to solve the world's food shortage. To this day the end scene of Heston being carried off on a stretcher sends shivers through me. If you think you might watch the movie, don't watch this clip. In fact, don't read this post until you have seen the movie. Here is a clip of the famous scene.

That movie came to my mind this morning when I read a headline from the British news agency The Telegraph. The expository story reads in part:

The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as
clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has
found.

Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning foetal remains alongside other rubbish
while two others used the bodies in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants which generate
power for heat.

Last night the Department of Health issued an instant ban on the practice
which health minister Dr Dan Poulter branded ‘totally unacceptable.’

At least 15,500 foetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last
two years alone, Channel 4’s Dispatches discovered.

The programme, which will air tonight [March 24], found that parents who lose children in
early pregnancy were often treated without compassion and were not consulted
about what they wanted to happen to the remains.

Such disregard for human life is incomprehensible to normal-minded people. Only savages or animals could so callously toss the remains of a murdered child into the trash bin. It takes a monster then to light the fire that consumes these precious lifeless bodies. I cannot even think of a name fitting for those who justify it as "waste-to-energy." Satan comes to mind, though.

Sadly, the incineration of babies is not happening only in the UK. It is happening here in the good old U.S. of A. In fact, infamous criminal abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted last year of killing three babies born alive, was also accused of illegally burning the bodies of the babies he had aborted. He used a company called Stericycle to do the dirty work. That company is now under investigation also for its tactics in disposing of the human remains that never got a chance to enjoy a precious breath of air in their lungs or the warmth of their mother's touch.

Charlton Heston reaches out a bloody hand as he pleads for people to listen to the truth.

"Soylent Green is People," cried Charlton Heston as he was carted away, his arm outstretched as if grasping for a lifeline, beckoning those around to listen to the truth and to understand what the horrible truth of Soylent Green meant for mankind.

In the end, understanding the truth about abortion will only come if people have an unfettered respect for life. Consider this blog post my outstretched, grasping hand.

The troubling news comes out of a Manhattan Appellate Court. I shouldn't be all that surprised seeing as to how so much liberal crap comes out of New York. The story happened in January of 2011 and involves two lesbian (strike 1) tenured (strike 2) public school teachers (strike 3). One was a 38-year-old French teacher (Mauro) and the other a 34-year-old Spanish teacher (Brito). (They don't call them romance languages for nothing!)

It seems that these women were caught by the janitor after hours engaging in a sexual act in a classroom of the school building while a school function was going on in the building. The women claim they did nothing wrong. The had left school and gone to a bar, then returned to school for the event. One of them, they claim, then needed so get something to eat to raise her blood sugar level. How that explains their nudity from the waist up when they were caught is beyond me. The school system fired the women, and they sued.

Now, three years later, a five-judge appellate panel has ruled that firing these women was too harsh. They called the firing of the women "shockingly disproportionate." After all, says the panel, they didn't HAVE to come to the school that night for the event. It was optional. They were going above and beyond the call of duty in coming. I guess that's one way of describing their outrageous behavior.

So, the lesbian tenured public school teachers will get their jobs back, and get back pay, no doubt. Three strikes and they're back in, all for coming out and letting it all hang out. They will return to teach some lucky, hungry little minds in New York.

Speaking of strikes, I can say that lightning would have to strike me (twice) before I would live in New Your, much less send my kids there for school.

Friday, March 21, 2014

This story has a twist on the "Informed Catholic Voter" moniker. It's about informed voters voting for a Catholic. And not just any Catholic, but a Catholic nun. An Italian Catholic nun. A singing Italian Catholic nun. (No, not Sally Fields as "the Singing Nun" from my childhood, nor Whoopie Goldberg in "Sister Act" from my middle years.) A beautiful, young, happy, singing Italian Catholic nun.

The setting is the Italian version of the TV singing competition show "The Voice." The video of the 25-year-old singing nun is fun to watch, even though it is in Italian and there are no subtitles. You don't really need subtitles, however, to get the gist of what is transpiring between the judges, the nun, and the adoring audience.

Judge J-Ax

Keep an eye on the younger male judge with the hat and the tattoo on his throat that says I will triumph and which features a bat with a skull head. I swear he has tears in his eyes that look like they will come spilling out at any second.

So, Sister Cristina herself votes to go on J-Ax's team. And it seems she has a lot of voters in the audience who support her already after one performance.

I could end the story here, but that would mean I am leaving out the most beautiful pat of this story. At least it is beautiful to me. Maybe that's because when I was younger I had similar thoughts as I think Sister Cristina was feeling and conveying. She wasn't just singing a popular song for the fun of it. The emotion with which she sang was real. And I think that the reason that there were tears in the eyes of Judge J-Ax was that he realized that Sister Cristina was singing to her Love, Jesus Christ. Here are the lyrics to the Alicia Keys song "No One."

"No One"

I just want you close
Where you can stay forever
You can be sure
That it will only get better

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright
People keep talking they can say what they like
But all I know is everything's going to be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

When the rain is pouring down
And my heart is hurting
You will always be around
This I know for certain

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright
People keep talking they can say what they like
But all I know is everything's going to be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel

I know some people search the world
To find something like what we have
I know people will try, try to divide, something so real
So till the end of time I'm telling you there ain't no one

No one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

Thursday, March 20, 2014

This video is about a year old, but it is still a powerful and moving image to see. It made me cry, in part for the families who have lost loved ones in their defense of our country, but also because of the direction our country has gone since 2008.

We are likely to see fewer and fewer young people willing to risk their
lives in defense of a country that (collectively) no longer appreciates
their sacrifice and, worse, no longer treasures the freedoms and rights
that made this country great. Sadly, "What is there to fight for?" is what we will be hearing more and more as we sink further into the abyss into which liberalism has driven us.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Hey, hey, all you voters in Kentucky! This is a different kind of vote. More of a ranking if you will. Rank the following Kentucky cities from 1 to 15 in the order you think that they provide the best place to live. When you finish, check out the pictures below for the answer compiled by Movoto blog. (Note: Okay, the first screen you can see below gives away the number 1 city, but try to guess the other 14 rankings.)

City of Jeffersontown
City of Fort Knox
City of Owensboro
City of Lyndon
City of Henderson
City of St. Matthews
City of Murray
City of Glasgow
City of Madisonville
City of Fort Thomas
Lexington-Fayette
City of Louisville

Friday, March 14, 2014

During Lent I have been trying to read my Bible more often than I normally do. Because the Bible contains the Word of God (Jesus) in print form, we should take special care of the Book. Here is a special offer to help you do just that.

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Since 2008, when Barack Obama managed to gain a choke hold on the mainstream media, the American public has been lied to time and time again by once trusted major news sources. Throughout the years of this regime we've seen overt bullying tactics from the Obama and his minions against news organizations that seek to report the truth. The Administration wants to control the stories and the angles that are reported to the People. And when they cannot, they ridicule whole news organizations, they try to shame or embarrass individual reporters, or they ignore or banish individual reporters and news agencies in their entirety.

This journalist stood up for her beliefs and put her own self-respect ahead of her career and well-being. Whether or not one agrees with her opinions about the actions of Putin in the Ukraine, it takes guts to disavow an employer with whom you have fundamental disagreements. Moreover, Wahl did not just bow out quietly and begin job hunting on the down low. Instead, she publicly expressed her disdain for the egregious breach of trust that the Russian-state-owned news agency has perpetrated on people all over the world. Was it unprofessional? Perhaps. But those few seconds of telling the truth in the heat of the moment spoke louder than anything she cold have ever written or spoken after the fact.

Bravo, Ms. Wahl. Maybe MSNBC or CNN could use your services. But wait, they also whitewash the truth and tow the Obama line. What does the Fox say?

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

There are some really creative videos that conservative news organizations put out from time to time that show just how ignorant is the vast majority of the population in this country who vote Democrat. From time to time I have posted some of the better ones here on my blog. The one that I am posting below is so typical that it just makes me shake my head.

We are still more than 2 1/2 years away from the next presidential election. The counter in my right blog's hand margin shows that we have still over a thousand days left in this current fascist regime. There is still time for America to wake up and see the destruction that has taken place since January 20, 2009. There is still time to show clearly that the shambles of the economy that we are currently suffering is all due to Obama and his minions. And that includes his girl Hillary.

When the woman in the video above says that there is a reason Obama put Hillary in the office of Secretary of State, I wish that someone could point out to her that there is a very good reason for that appointment: Obama believes in the old adage, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." With Hillary under his thumb, he could send her on all those junkets around the world and keep her (and he hoped, Bill) out of his hair. It worked. For four years. Until Benghazi. But that got glossed over, too.

Because Hillary was looking to pad her resume, she swallowed her pride and took the bait from Obama. Since then she has bided her time relatively quietly and minded her p's and q's. She refrained from criticism of Obama because he was not only her bread and butter but her path to 2016. It will not be long before we see Hillary Unleashed. Still, she knows if she moves too soon, she will saturate the voting world with her nauseating presence. So she is waiting for the opportune time to pounce.

At least there is some good news. Recent reports say that Hillary's health will not hold out for another 10 years. (If she is elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, she'd finish two-terms in 2024, at the age of 77, which is how old my mom is now. Not that Mom couldn't be a darn good president, having raised eleven fine children.) Hillary reportedly took a tumble in 2012 and hit her head, an incident that took her off the radar for several months. Some speculate that it was actually much worse than was being told. Was it a brain tumor? A year and a half later reports that she has a brain tumor are resurfacing, with more gravitas this time around. Apparently the tumor was discovered during a colonoscopy. (I know, bad joke. But give credit to the National Report.)

So perhaps Hillary will come to her senses and opt out of 2016. Maybe she needs a grandchild or two to play with in her spare time. Bill might be able to arrange something there for Chelsea. Or, instead Hillary could just spend the rest of her life basking in the glory that being the wife of a pervert former President affords you. Talk about a brain tumor. She certainly has nothing memorable from her years as Secretary of State on which to rest her laurels. Her own supporters have attested to that.